The agenda : how a Republican Supreme Court is reshaping America / Ian Millhiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millhiser, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States--Attitudes.

Judges.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

United States.

Judges--Attitudes.

United States. Supreme Court.

United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.

United States--Politics and government--2021-.

Physical Description:

143 pages : map ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Global Reports, [2021]

Summary:

"From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, weakened laws protecting against age discrimination and sexual and racial harassment, and held that every state must permit same-sex couples to marry. This powerful unelected body, now controlled by six very conservative Republicans, has and will become the locus of policymaking in the United States. Ian Millhiser, Vox's Supreme Court correspondent, tells the story of what those six justices are likely to do with their power. It is true that the right to abortion is in its final days, as is affirmative action. But Millhiser shows that it is in the most arcane decisions that the Court will fundamentally reshape America, transforming it into something far less democratic, by attacking voting rights, dismantling and vetoing the federal administrative state, ignoring the separation of church and state, and putting corporations above the law. This book exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right--its agenda is to shape the very nature of America's government, redefining who gets to have legal rights, who is beyond the reach of the law, and who chooses the people who make our laws"-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Right to Vote

ch. Two Dismantling the Administrative State

ch. Three Religion

ch. Four The Right to Sue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-143).

ISBN:

9781734420760

1734420766

OCLC:

1204258430

Publisher Number:

99989858248